Vaniver comments on Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 26 January 2016 06:28:22PM *  2 points [-]

The purely-black IQ mean is about 85, I believe. A great deal of American blacks have some admixture of whte genes, so I think the IQ average for US blacks is in high 80s, maybe 90.

African American mean IQ is typically measured at 85 to 90. Sub-Saharan African IQs are difficult to estimate because of a number of factors, but 85 is much higher than typical estimates.